Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-03-02 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
Some time in the last decade, out at NY4A in the CQ WW DX CW, on 40 meters, I started hearing CW that I initially thought someone was sending over the top of me, mocking me. I sent an FU. and got an FU back. Then the lights went on in my fatigue-soddened brain. I sent a spastic random twiddle-diddl

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-03-02 Thread Gary Smith
It has not been recently but in the past I have heard my signals, it was around the year 1990, I was on CW and I had been a ham about 10 years at the time. I remember hearing a faint mirror of everything I sent and very disconcerting to focusing on sending properly. I do not recall the band

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-02-08 Thread Walter Miller, AJ6T
Lee and the group, Reports of LDEs have always fascinated me. The only echos I have heard were probably round-the-world or auroral distortions on high power 20 meter SSB stations. I am trying to do an analysis of the reported LDEs on 160 and 80 meters with echo times in the hundreds of mill

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-02-08 Thread Lee STRAHAN
Greetings All, I am afraid I have to take issue with you Wolf. And this may be a clue. I also have experienced echoes on 160 meters. Maybe it depends on longitude or latitude or something like that. N6TR not being too far away has also experienced them. All that being said I am positive due

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-02-08 Thread Raoul Coetzee via Topband
Dear Dr Ostwald,  Even though I have not experienced any echoes on HF,I think I will keep an open mind.We cannot even explain a weak force like gravity completely, after many years of ongoing research.Who are we to say that  LDS  belong in  fairy tale?  :-)After all, we are receiving echoes of t